are designed to bring each student individualized resources to help them develop and reach their own unique artistic and career goals.
The much appreciated grant provides me not just the financial support but the confidence to believe this project can be a success.
Every NEC student and alum has access to free advising from the EM team—conservatory-trained professionals with experience at every level of every size of arts organization. These one-on-one advising sessions can be about anything from writing bios and resumes to grant proposals, long term projects, career direction, and artistic goals.
Comics are a medium that blind people have been unable to access for far too long.
Congrats to EM Grant Winner Matthew Shifrin, who won 1st place and $15,000 in the 2018 MIT Creative Arts Competition for his project Hapticomix. Matthew and his collaborator from MIT’s Media Lab are pioneering Virtual Reality for the blind using 3D radio-dramas with motion simulation via a worn vestibular-affecting device.
Only seven girls have made Texas All-State Jazz Band in the last decade.
EM Grant Winner Amanda Ekery MM '18 created El Paso Jazz Girls this summer, a free program for high school girls in her hometown. Amanda worked with Stephanie Munoz MM '17 and Grace Ward BM '21 to bring workshops to girls from all three El Paso high school districts.
"Much of what I now teach about art-making comes from my experiences between the ages of 22 and 30, when things fell apart."
Check out this op-ed for 21CM by EM Faculty Tanya Kalmanovitch.
Leading 250 advising sessions a year really brings clarity to the common traits of success for building a career in music.
In the June issue of Rhythm Scene, EM Assistant Dean Drew Worden writes about building an entrepreneurial skillset in music.
